Ecologgers:
We write to you on behalf of the 29 members of the 50 fundamental
questions in island biology working group (member names listed at the
end of this email).
To mark the arrival of 50 years since the publication of Robert
MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson’s book in 1967, The Theory of Island
Biogeography, we are undertaking a survey to identify the top 50
fundamental questions in island biogeography and island biodiversity. To
date we have been working with the approximately 400 attendees of the
recently held Island Biology Congress in the Azores
(http://www.islandbiology2016.uac.pt) to define a group of 80 questions
from an initial pool of more than 200. We now welcome the participation
of the broader community of researchers with an interest in island
biology to define the final set of 50 questions.
Access to the survey will close at 23:59 this Friday, the 16th of Sept
(GMT).
To participate, please access the following link.
https://goo.gl/forms/xVFQg7Lx7stwXsp32
Thank you very much, in advance, for your valuable contribution.
Yours sincerely,
The 50 fundamental questions in island biology working group:
Jairo Patiño, Robert J. Whittaker, Paulo A.V. Borges, Jose M.
Fernandez-Palacios, Claudine Ah-Peng, Miguel Araujo, Sergio Avila, Erick
de Boer, Pedro Cardoso, Josselin Cornuault, Lea de Nascimento, Artur
Gil, Aaron Gonzalez, Daniel Gruner, Ana Guida Santos, Ruben Heleno,
Joaquin Hortal, Juan Carlos Illera, Christopher Kaiser-Bunbury, Tom
Matthews, Anna Papadopoulou, Nathalie Patorelli, Jonathan Price, Manuel
Steinbauer, Kostas Triantis, Luis Valente, Pablo Vargas, Patrick
Weigelt, Brent Emerson
P.S. we apologize for cross-postings.
——
Jairo Patiño, PhD
Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Instituto de Productos
Naturales y Agrobiología (IPNA-CSIC)
C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary
Islands, 38206, Spain
http://www.jairopatino.com
